Imagine if the ban was for people aged 50 plus watching TV because it features biased opinions and endless adverts that try to alter people's opinions on various products. This is the classic thing of old men not knowing anything about what they're legislating.
Imagine if PC gaming sites wrote an article for every game that looks better on higher settings every time a new graphics card came out. I know people that have a Pro are excited but, again, people with a new GPU are excited too so that should be justifiable too, right? And if you don't like the article, don't read it? Well the headline already conveys the content of the article and you can't like or dislike it without reading it.
It's not the fact that they're covering the Pro, of course they should, but at this point it feels like ad bots have taken over the site. You can journalistically cover something without spamming and without sounding like you're posting on the official Playstation Twitter account. Where are the articles about the games that still don't consistently run at 60, like Elden Ring? Eurogamer is covering that kind of stuff in a more journalistic, less fanboyish way.
As a person playing rogue on hard mode, it's not all that great. Not being able to block so having to do either perfect parries (with 5/5 difficulty for timing on hard mode) or dodging all the time is annoying. You take massive damage from being hit so trying to time a parry in the midst of a storm of special effects isn't a great idea. And the fact there are no rogue things to do, like picking locks, means rogues are just fiddly warriors.
>the edgy Shadow Dragons. After that, it's the Antivan Crows at 16% Surely the Crows are the edgier ones? The Shadow Dragons are nice people freeing slaves. Also you have Dorian on your side who's about as edgy as a puppy, albeit a snarky puppy.
Just Veilguard. After this, I'm buying Ys X and Metaphor ReFantazio. I did start a playthrough of ME1 before Veilguard, being in a Bioware mood, as well as all three previous Dragon Ages - basically the gaming equivalent of when my dog tries to carry a log in her mouth instead of a normal stick. I might go back to them at some point.
@Kienda That won't happen. This is only like getting a somewhat better GPU for you PC so now you can raise the settings. The games can be on high settings instead of medium. The PS5 will continue to get medium to high settings and the Pro will get high to very high, depending on framerate choice.
These games are still coming out on PC and will still be scalable to different hardware tiers. Most modern games still run on a 970, a card from 2014. And yeah, at 60fps depending on the graphics settings. And the Pro isn't that powerful. It can't run Elden Ring at 60fps, a game that came out on PS4, and that does actually run at 60fps on a $350 graphics card.
"A lot of the game will run at 60fps, but it's hardly consistent and for the most part you're in the 50s - though truly challenging scenes can take you into the 40s". That's not performance mode, but apparently even that mode can't maintain it.
@Secryt The problem is the game isn't a 0/10 or 1/10. That's why it's review bombing, not simply because they didn't like it. Imagine if I gave OoT 1/10 because I don't like the political message that having an unelected monarchy is a good thing. Imagine if I'm referring to that as psyops and royalist propaganda. It's safe to say, if I did do that, I'd need therapy.
@Nepp67 You don't have to have her in your party at all, other than the initial recruitment mission (and then all she does is talk about dragons) let alone spend the majority of your time with her.
@zupertramp Yeah, what we're seeing here is like if a guy had a PC and started to play The Witcher 3, for example, on medium settings and then put it on high settings and started screaming about his face melting and how he's now basically playing the Witcher 4. It's a bit sad too because it still looks worse than it could on a PC so, even though I mainly game on PS5, it does reinforce the console peasant stereotype.
I feel like if the Push Square guys got a good PC, they could entertain themselves all day by opening games and raising draw distance and texture resolution. They'd be in tears of joy from just turning on ambient occlusion.
I do wonder if Sony intentionally put underwhelming games up when the new releases are so impactful. Like, we have Veilguard (the first new entry in one of the main WRPG series in a decade), Metaphor ReFantazio, a new CoD, and more obscurely but relevant to my interests, a remake of Romancing Saga 2, a classic JRPG, and a new Ys game, one of the longest running JRPGs. And I'm sure many other major games, but those are the ones on my personal radar - plus CoD which I'm not a fan of but obviously loads of people are. I bet when GTA6 comes out, that month will be bad too.
@Northern_munkey I came in to say the same thing. It's really weird to refer to this as an Xbox game, sounds like he isn't familiar with gaming history (and I often get that impression from his articles). It's like calling Sonic "a classic Playstation series".
I'm going to get it but on PC. I have quite a bit of money saved up so I could get a Pro but it's a big chunk of the money it'd take to get a really good PC (about half to a third) so I'd rather just take the plunge rather than burn that money on hardware that's worse than a PC and will be replaced by the PS6 in a few years.
Not to be all doom and gloom, but this console gen has just convinced me there's no reason to buy consoles anymore other than not being able to afford a PC. Long gone are the days when, say, the SNES or PS1 were their own distinct things from a PC rather than just a lower spec PC with less games, more expensive games, and paid online.
There'll always be performance and fidelity because however good it looks at 60fps, it'll always look better if you ramp up the settings until it can only manage 30.
@Fishnpeas Talking about "polishing your sword" and burping isn't adult humour. It's very childish. Imagine a professional standup comedian going on stage and going "any of the men here like to, ahem, polishtheirweapons ehehehe! Burp!" It's really cringy and there wasn't anything to redeem the character either.
Veilguard. I'm playing on hard mode (Underdog) and it's brutal. Most attacks take off ⅓ to ½ of my health. I can't block, just parry - and the timing is really specific. I really like the different areas, the different things to discover and the way you open up new areas. I've felt really involved in the story too.
While there is an MCU dialogue element to Harding and Bellara, Harding was like that in DAI, and DA has always had stuff like that; Alistair (and the Warden if you choose a certain voice) say "Warden senses tingling!" in DAO. Not to mention Alistair's famous "Swooping... Swooping is bad" line. And talking of "where's my dark tone?" it does have that, but also lighter stuff. Like the series always has. See Oghren's many banters about w*nking in DAO or scenes like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gb6v62TUQLg
It's also done well critically; professionally, Steam user reviews, PSN user reviews and Xbox user reviews (the latter two both around 4.5/5). And as another article on here says, it's the most successful launch for a single-player EA game on Steam in history.
@Deityjester "9.0!? Think they need to start doing substance tests in the push square offices" Talking of tests, maybe an eye test is required here 😉 - it says 8. The 9 is the user score.
Really liking it so far but I started on the 2nd hardest setting, as a rogue, and basically nearly die every time I mistime a parry. This might take some getting used to. I was in the character creation for 3.5 hours too. 😅
@PuppetMaster Well it's not just that, China has over a billion people in it whereas Japan only has about 120 million last time I checked. Also Japan has an ageing population with less and less kids being born, so fewer up-and-coming new customers to get into gaming. You see it all over the world, China is the US's biggest exports market after Canada and Mexico, two countries it directly borders.
Definitely getting this. I bought it on PS3 but didn't get that far (and my PS3 broke ages ago). I emulated it too but again, random stuff got in the way and I didn't make much progress. But what time I did spend was really enjoyable. There's something really charming about the look, feel and tone of the game. I like how it starts out with the main characters being kids, too. Makes you feel more attached to them.
I really enjoyed the demo. I played on Hard and it was fine apart from the last mimic in the mansion absolutely destroyed me two times until I got lucky and he just decided to stop one-shotting each member of my party. The final boss (of the demo) was also tough but mainly due to the punishment of losing LP. If it wasn't for that mechanic, he'd be fine.
I want to get this, as well as Ys X, but they'll have to wait until after Veilguard.
@EfYI Occam's razor would say they haven't intentionally taken it away at all since loads of people can still do it. Also you had to spend something like £125 to get a £5 discount, which basically meant you were getting 4% cheaper prices. So in other words, a £70 game would be £67.20. it's not exactly denting their profits by much, especially when you consider that most people don't even do it. They're losing more money by having a library of hundreds of games you don't need to pay for anymore as long as you pay an amount equal to less than two new games a year (PS+ Extra)
Don't get me wrong, they're definitely trying to rein it in a bit or they wouldn't be changing the limit to 12 months. But the fact is that it still works for many people, including in the UK, and when you look at it in detail you're still paying more than for physical.
For a couple of weeks I've been going between Dragon Age Origins, DA2 and DAI. Not one of my better ideas. Not least because they all have different world states since the final saves haven't been imported to each other. So, for example, in DAI Alistair is dead but in DA2 he's king of Ferelden. Still, it's been fun overall.
Also tried the Ys X demo and loved it, just a shame Veilguard is out in a few days so I won't really be able to play both.
@Nepp67 Yeah but you're comparing all time greats with games that were mediocre even at the time. It's like how Super Mario World and LttP still play great now and really hold up, but there are literally thousands of games from the same era that are terrible, many verging on unplayable.
MGS is a classic but go and play one of its contemporaries like Deathtrap Dungeon and see how long you can take it. Or talking of LttP, go and play that and then play Brandish. Same kind of game, same console, but man does it make you appreciate the magic Nintendo worked with LttP.
@Max_the_German I hate to say this since you've bought it, but I found it incredibly bland and boring. It felt like the game equivalent of the kind of action film you watch with friends while drinking, and you all end up ignoring the film and talking. That said, some people like it so hopefully you're one of them.
@TechaNinja It's not locked to the Pro artificially, the regular PS5 couldn't run this at 120fps unless the game ended up looking like a PS2 game. Better hardware gets better framerates, there's nothing nefarious about this.
It definitely seems worth a play despite the fact that characters move very slowly. It's amazing how negative that can be. I played some old PS2 JRPGs that are on PS+, ones I can't even remember the name of, but they totally passed me by back in the day. Anyway, you move so slowly in some of them that doing anything is just painful. Same in Dragon Age Inquisition. It's a major problem because it's always present. That said, at least for a shorter game it's less of an issue, and it's fitting for a horror game.
There's something comical and cartoonish about the animations which doesn't really go with the edgy, horror vibe they're going for. I played one of these games when it came out and it did stick with me - I mean, I still remember playing it - but I mainly remember it feeling quite cheap and bland. I like the thing where you can climb on your spears that are stuck in things, though. That seemed very inventive at the time.
I genuinely didn't even know this had come out yet. I thought it had just been announced but not released - I remember people complaining about the main character a while ago, but I guess that was actually the release. But yeah, to be honest you take a series that was big in the 2000s, very niche in its original incarnation, and you change it into a tired genre that oversaturates the indie space, and seemingly change the protagonist... Not gonna work, is it? Imagine if the next Tomb Raider is a 2D platformer where the main character isn't, or doesn't look like, Lara. Not a little side project but the actual next Tomb Raider and the only one in years.
@Futureshark Yeah, and in the world of gaming, Captain Anderson from Mass Effect. If you don't remember him, or didn't play it, he was like a mentor and friend to Shepard.
@gingerfrog Sure but if they released a game where you have to escape from the Twin Towers as planes crash into them, everyone could choose not to play it but it would still be incredibly controversial in America. Or to take it to a extreme, a game where you hunt and kill children. If you don't like it, don't play it, right? But would you be surprised if it was banned? Or a game where you play as a Nazi and get points for gassing Jewish people. Is that okay?
Anything goes if the rule is "it's okay because you don't have to play it or watch it", but would you be okay with being able to romance children in Mass Effect? There are lots of things that you're okay with being banned; but if the idea was as simple as people could just not watch it or play it, you'd be in favour of it being allowed. There's obviously more to it.
This goes to @GamingFan4Lyf too. I don't like censorship either, and I said in my post I don't necessarily support this ban, yet we regularly accept things being banned because to our society it's obvious it should be banned.
@NEStalgia Well imagine if you were from Kuwait and when you were a kid, a foreign army stormed into your country, your city, and you sat in your home terrified as people you potentially knew were killed. Then you're an adult and an American company makes a fun game about it (and presumably a fun game where it's Americans doing the saving as the Kuwaitis powerlessly thank their saviours). At least with WW1&2 stuff, practically no one actually playing games based on them would've been alive then. Not saying I agree with a ban but it would be a terrifying and traumatic thing for a lot of people there still, I could imagine.
I don't know if 500 negative reviews (even overnight) that actually pertain to the gameplay, when the game has over 78,000 reviews that average "very positive", counts as review bombing. A small number of people are expressing dissatisfaction with gameplay changes - let's not throw around buzzwords we don't understand. I've not even played this game so I'm not saying this because I'm annoyed by the changes, by the way.
@lindos I doubt it. People with that low level of knowledge about gaming wouldn't know the Portal exists in the first place, let alone assume their child definitely wants one and they it's definitely worth spending £200 on.
No one I know IRL had heard of it until I mentioned it. Also, people with a low level of gaming knowledge are usually too scared to buy anything as a gift for a gamer as they're scared of messing up. All through my life, any birthday or Christmas, my parents just give me money instead of buying me a game or accessory.
I have my Switch set up so I can do remote play on it. It's nice playing in bed, especially for more story-based games like Ace Attorney. I really can't imagine paying £200 for the ability to do that, though.
To me this is mainly a game where you try to figure out how to stop being blasted around backwards. I swear to Kami-sama, I spend most of my time being combo'd around like a volleyball. I was pretty good at the previous BT.games but now I always feel like I'm Yamcha fighting a Saibaman.
@guardianoftime They're two different things. It's like comparing Dynasty Warriors to DMC - not that I'm saying either game is the same as those two, just that FighterZ is a traditional fighting game and Sparking/Budokai Tenkaichi is like a DBZ sim.
@IntrepidWombat "how many times can you possibly retread the same story beats"
The story isn't really the focus, to be fair. They just always have a story mode because people expect it, and the story is already established. This isn't aimed at you, just a general observation, but it's funny how Zelda, Pokémon and Mario never get accused of this despite being original stories that could do anything and aren't being based on a pre-existing story in another medium. Like if every FF was about trying to stop Sephiroth summoning Meteor.
@AgentGuapo Not if the framerate is capped, which is pretty common. In fact, if the game couldn't reach 60fps on a regular PS5, it's very likely it would be capped to 30. And unlike buying a GPU, it won't make the games look better without a patch. It just seems like such a limited boost. Some games will look a bit better, or will run at 60 while also being a slightly higher res. But most things won't benefit without a patch. And it's over a third of a price of an amazing PC that would have all games looking and running way better than in a Pro, all with free online and cheaper games. And a far larger selection of games.
I want to be tempted and excited by the Pro but I just can't.
@Bramble Yeah, pretty sure that's it. It's simply that quite a few games have arachnophobia mode and many ones that don't have mods for it (like Skyrim, so this idea goes back at least 13 years) so it stood out that this didn't - at least to whoever asked Bioware about this. Then they simply said "can't have an arachnophobia mode without spiders" and now, typically for the internet, people are reading into it and politicising it.
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Re: Australia's Planned Social Media Ban to Include PSN
Imagine if the ban was for people aged 50 plus watching TV because it features biased opinions and endless adverts that try to alter people's opinions on various products. This is the classic thing of old men not knowing anything about what they're legislating.
Re: Hands On: The Crew Motorfest has Never Looked Better Thanks to the PS5 Pro
Imagine if PC gaming sites wrote an article for every game that looks better on higher settings every time a new graphics card came out. I know people that have a Pro are excited but, again, people with a new GPU are excited too so that should be justifiable too, right? And if you don't like the article, don't read it? Well the headline already conveys the content of the article and you can't like or dislike it without reading it.
It's not the fact that they're covering the Pro, of course they should, but at this point it feels like ad bots have taken over the site. You can journalistically cover something without spamming and without sounding like you're posting on the official Playstation Twitter account. Where are the articles about the games that still don't consistently run at 60, like Elden Ring? Eurogamer is covering that kind of stuff in a more journalistic, less fanboyish way.
Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reveals Players' Most Popular Class, Race, and Faction
As a person playing rogue on hard mode, it's not all that great. Not being able to block so having to do either perfect parries (with 5/5 difficulty for timing on hard mode) or dodging all the time is annoying. You take massive damage from being hit so trying to time a parry in the midst of a storm of special effects isn't a great idea. And the fact there are no rogue things to do, like picking locks, means rogues are just fiddly warriors.
>the edgy Shadow Dragons. After that, it's the Antivan Crows at 16%
Surely the Crows are the edgier ones? The Shadow Dragons are nice people freeing slaves. Also you have Dorian on your side who's about as edgy as a puppy, albeit a snarky puppy.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 554
Just Veilguard. After this, I'm buying Ys X and Metaphor ReFantazio. I did start a playthrough of ME1 before Veilguard, being in a Bioware mood, as well as all three previous Dragon Ages - basically the gaming equivalent of when my dog tries to carry a log in her mouth instead of a normal stick. I might go back to them at some point.
Re: 'Mind Boggling' Horizon Forbidden West Has the Best Console Image Quality Ever on PS5 Pro
@danzoEX I know. It feels more like Push Pro than Push Square. It feels like every article should have a paid promotion tag, like certain YT videos.
Re: 'Mind Boggling' Horizon Forbidden West Has the Best Console Image Quality Ever on PS5 Pro
Ever... Until the PS6 in a few years.
@Kienda That won't happen. This is only like getting a somewhat better GPU for you PC so now you can raise the settings. The games can be on high settings instead of medium. The PS5 will continue to get medium to high settings and the Pro will get high to very high, depending on framerate choice.
These games are still coming out on PC and will still be scalable to different hardware tiers. Most modern games still run on a 970, a card from 2014. And yeah, at 60fps depending on the graphics settings. And the Pro isn't that powerful. It can't run Elden Ring at 60fps, a game that came out on PS4, and that does actually run at 60fps on a $350 graphics card.
Re: 20 Years Later, Identity of Metal Gear Solid 3 Eva Voice Actress Revealed
Do you think love can bloom, even under the sea?
Re: Gran Turismo 7 Clocks Native 4K/120fps on PS5 Pro Via Game Boost, Pre-Enhanced Patch
But it still can't do Elden Ring at 60fps. If it can't even do that, and PCs can, it seems pretty underwhelming.
https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2024-can-ps5-pro-run-elden-ring-at-60-frames-per-second
"A lot of the game will run at 60fps, but it's hardly consistent and for the most part you're in the 50s - though truly challenging scenes can take you into the 40s". That's not performance mode, but apparently even that mode can't maintain it.
Re: Metacritic Responds to Ongoing Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review Bombing Campaign
@Secryt The problem is the game isn't a 0/10 or 1/10. That's why it's review bombing, not simply because they didn't like it. Imagine if I gave OoT 1/10 because I don't like the political message that having an unelected monarchy is a good thing. Imagine if I'm referring to that as psyops and royalist propaganda. It's safe to say, if I did do that, I'd need therapy.
Re: Metacritic Responds to Ongoing Dragon Age: The Veilguard Review Bombing Campaign
@Nepp67 You don't have to have her in your party at all, other than the initial recruitment mission (and then all she does is talk about dragons) let alone spend the majority of your time with her.
Re: PS5 Pro Makes Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Look Like a Whole New Game
@zupertramp Yeah, what we're seeing here is like if a guy had a PC and started to play The Witcher 3, for example, on medium settings and then put it on high settings and started screaming about his face melting and how he's now basically playing the Witcher 4. It's a bit sad too because it still looks worse than it could on a PC so, even though I mainly game on PS5, it does reinforce the console peasant stereotype.
I feel like if the Push Square guys got a good PC, they could entertain themselves all day by opening games and raising draw distance and texture resolution. They'd be in tears of joy from just turning on ambient occlusion.
Re: PS Plus Essential Provides 3 PS5, PS4 Games to Download Now
@Czar_Khastik Thanks, now I'm in gamer prison in America for not liking CoD.
Re: PS Plus Essential Provides 3 PS5, PS4 Games to Download Now
I do wonder if Sony intentionally put underwhelming games up when the new releases are so impactful. Like, we have Veilguard (the first new entry in one of the main WRPG series in a decade), Metaphor ReFantazio, a new CoD, and more obscurely but relevant to my interests, a remake of Romancing Saga 2, a classic JRPG, and a new Ys game, one of the longest running JRPGs. And I'm sure many other major games, but those are the ones on my personal radar - plus CoD which I'm not a fan of but obviously loads of people are. I bet when GTA6 comes out, that month will be bad too.
Re: Xbox's Legendary Strategy Series Seemingly Set to Invade PS5
@Northern_munkey I came in to say the same thing. It's really weird to refer to this as an Xbox game, sounds like he isn't familiar with gaming history (and I often get that impression from his articles). It's like calling Sonic "a classic Playstation series".
Re: Poll: What Did You Think of the Monster Hunter Wilds Beta?
I'm going to get it but on PC. I have quite a bit of money saved up so I could get a Pro but it's a big chunk of the money it'd take to get a really good PC (about half to a third) so I'd rather just take the plunge rather than burn that money on hardware that's worse than a PC and will be replaced by the PS6 in a few years.
Not to be all doom and gloom, but this console gen has just convinced me there's no reason to buy consoles anymore other than not being able to afford a PC. Long gone are the days when, say, the SNES or PS1 were their own distinct things from a PC rather than just a lower spec PC with less games, more expensive games, and paid online.
Re: PS5 Pro Unboxings Now Online, Same Box Basically
I like the Dragon Quest slime that's pretending to be a PS5.
Re: Mini Review: Empire of the Ants (PS5) - A Confused RTS That Shines in Its Multiplayer
@KoopaTheGamer This is actually the PS5 Pro enhanced version of SimAnt. Behold the power of the Pro.
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Will Literally Melt Your Face Off on PS5 Pro
@Absymbel Well if you buy a PS5 Pro you can be confused and aroused at 60fps in 4k.
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Will Literally Melt Your Face Off on PS5 Pro
Figuratively literally? 🤔
Re: Insomniac Developers Psyched for PS5 Pro, Enhanced Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is 'Phenomenal'
There'll always be performance and fidelity because however good it looks at 60fps, it'll always look better if you ramp up the settings until it can only manage 30.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 553
@Fishnpeas Talking about "polishing your sword" and burping isn't adult humour. It's very childish. Imagine a professional standup comedian going on stage and going "any of the men here like to, ahem, polish their weapons ehehehe! Burp!" It's really cringy and there wasn't anything to redeem the character either.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 553
Veilguard. I'm playing on hard mode (Underdog) and it's brutal. Most attacks take off ⅓ to ½ of my health. I can't block, just parry - and the timing is really specific. I really like the different areas, the different things to discover and the way you open up new areas. I've felt really involved in the story too.
While there is an MCU dialogue element to Harding and Bellara, Harding was like that in DAI, and DA has always had stuff like that; Alistair (and the Warden if you choose a certain voice) say "Warden senses tingling!" in DAO. Not to mention Alistair's famous "Swooping... Swooping is bad" line. And talking of "where's my dark tone?" it does have that, but also lighter stuff. Like the series always has. See Oghren's many banters about w*nking in DAO or scenes like this:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gb6v62TUQLg
Re: BioWare Rules Out Any Dragon Age: The Veilguard DLC
@Lavishturtle They said a while ago they weren't doing DLC. I'm not sure why sites are reporting it now as if it's a new thing. Here's an article saying the same thing from over a month ago:
https://www.thegamer.com/dragon-age-the-veilguard-no-plans-for-dlc-inquisition
It's also done well critically; professionally, Steam user reviews, PSN user reviews and Xbox user reviews (the latter two both around 4.5/5). And as another article on here says, it's the most successful launch for a single-player EA game on Steam in history.
Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 (PS5) - The Strongest Return to FPS Form
@Deityjester "9.0!? Think they need to start doing substance tests in the push square offices"
Talking of tests, maybe an eye test is required here 😉 - it says 8. The 9 is the user score.
Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Guide: Key Help for BioWare's RPG
Really liking it so far but I started on the 2nd hardest setting, as a rogue, and basically nearly die every time I mistime a parry. This might take some getting used to. I was in the character creation for 3.5 hours too. 😅
Re: Sony Knows How to Sell PS5 in China, And It's with Gacha
@PuppetMaster Well it's not just that, China has over a billion people in it whereas Japan only has about 120 million last time I checked. Also Japan has an ageing population with less and less kids being born, so fewer up-and-coming new customers to get into gaming. You see it all over the world, China is the US's biggest exports market after Canada and Mexico, two countries it directly borders.
Re: Tales of Graces f Reveals Remastered PS5, PS4 Updates in New Trailer
Definitely getting this. I bought it on PS3 but didn't get that far (and my PS3 broke ages ago). I emulated it too but again, random stuff got in the way and I didn't make much progress. But what time I did spend was really enjoyable. There's something really charming about the look, feel and tone of the game. I like how it starts out with the main characters being kids, too. Makes you feel more attached to them.
Re: Mini Review: Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven (PS5) - Hardcore Remake Is a JRPG Blast from the Past
I really enjoyed the demo. I played on Hard and it was fine apart from the last mimic in the mansion absolutely destroyed me two times until I got lucky and he just decided to stop one-shotting each member of my party. The final boss (of the demo) was also tough but mainly due to the punishment of losing LP. If it wasn't for that mechanic, he'd be fine.
I want to get this, as well as Ys X, but they'll have to wait until after Veilguard.
Re: Monster Hunter Wilds Beta: Start Times, How to Access, and Rewards
@bowzoid Damn, you're right. I misread it as 3pm and am in the game now thinking it'd go live in a few minutes. 😩
Re: Cash Rewards Still Unavailable for Millions in PS5, PS4 Rewards Scheme PS Stars
@EfYI Occam's razor would say they haven't intentionally taken it away at all since loads of people can still do it. Also you had to spend something like £125 to get a £5 discount, which basically meant you were getting 4% cheaper prices. So in other words, a £70 game would be £67.20. it's not exactly denting their profits by much, especially when you consider that most people don't even do it. They're losing more money by having a library of hundreds of games you don't need to pay for anymore as long as you pay an amount equal to less than two new games a year (PS+ Extra)
Don't get me wrong, they're definitely trying to rein it in a bit or they wouldn't be changing the limit to 12 months. But the fact is that it still works for many people, including in the UK, and when you look at it in detail you're still paying more than for physical.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 552
For a couple of weeks I've been going between Dragon Age Origins, DA2 and DAI. Not one of my better ideas. Not least because they all have different world states since the final saves haven't been imported to each other. So, for example, in DAI Alistair is dead but in DA2 he's king of Ferelden. Still, it's been fun overall.
Also tried the Ys X demo and loved it, just a shame Veilguard is out in a few days so I won't really be able to play both.
Re: Don't Believe Your Eyes in The Thing: Remastered PS5, PS4 Gameplay
@Nepp67 Yeah but you're comparing all time greats with games that were mediocre even at the time. It's like how Super Mario World and LttP still play great now and really hold up, but there are literally thousands of games from the same era that are terrible, many verging on unplayable.
MGS is a classic but go and play one of its contemporaries like Deathtrap Dungeon and see how long you can take it. Or talking of LttP, go and play that and then play Brandish. Same kind of game, same console, but man does it make you appreciate the magic Nintendo worked with LttP.
Re: Gotta Sell Fast! Sonic X Shadow Generations Has Already Surpassed 1 Million Copies Sold
@ATaco He's more like Sasuke to Naruto, really.
Re: Random: Killzone Superfans Want to License the IP from Sony
@Max_the_German I hate to say this since you've bought it, but I found it incredibly bland and boring. It felt like the game equivalent of the kind of action film you watch with friends while drinking, and you all end up ignoring the film and talking. That said, some people like it so hopefully you're one of them.
Re: Stellar Blade's Latest Update Preps for PS5 Pro Enhancement
@TechaNinja It's not locked to the Pro artificially, the regular PS5 couldn't run this at 120fps unless the game ended up looking like a PS2 game. Better hardware gets better framerates, there's nothing nefarious about this.
Re: Mini Review: Fear The Spotlight (PS5) - A Love Letter to PS1 Horror with a Bit Too Much Back-and-Forth
It definitely seems worth a play despite the fact that characters move very slowly. It's amazing how negative that can be. I played some old PS2 JRPGs that are on PS+, ones I can't even remember the name of, but they totally passed me by back in the day. Anyway, you move so slowly in some of them that doing anything is just painful. Same in Dragon Age Inquisition. It's a major problem because it's always present. That said, at least for a shorter game it's less of an issue, and it's fitting for a horror game.
Re: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered Reveals Baddies in PS5, PS4 Trailer
There's something comical and cartoonish about the animations which doesn't really go with the edgy, horror vibe they're going for. I played one of these games when it came out and it did stick with me - I mean, I still remember playing it - but I mainly remember it feeling quite cheap and bland. I like the thing where you can climb on your spears that are stuck in things, though. That seemed very inventive at the time.
Re: Ubisoft Disbands Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Team After Poor Sales, Claims Report
I genuinely didn't even know this had come out yet. I thought it had just been announced but not released - I remember people complaining about the main character a while ago, but I guess that was actually the release. But yeah, to be honest you take a series that was big in the 2000s, very niche in its original incarnation, and you change it into a tired genre that oversaturates the indie space, and seemingly change the protagonist... Not gonna work, is it? Imagine if the next Tomb Raider is a 2D platformer where the main character isn't, or doesn't look like, Lara. Not a little side project but the actual next Tomb Raider and the only one in years.
Re: Horizon's Sylens Will Be Recast Following the Passing of Lance Reddick
@Futureshark Yeah, and in the world of gaming, Captain Anderson from Mass Effect. If you don't remember him, or didn't play it, he was like a mentor and friend to Shepard.
Re: Alan Wake 2 Adds PS5 Gyro Aiming in Big Anniversary Update
That's the exact face I'd make if I saw a giant Dualsense hovering in the air next to me.
Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Blocked in Kuwait, Activision Refunds Preorders
@gingerfrog Sure but if they released a game where you have to escape from the Twin Towers as planes crash into them, everyone could choose not to play it but it would still be incredibly controversial in America. Or to take it to a extreme, a game where you hunt and kill children. If you don't like it, don't play it, right? But would you be surprised if it was banned? Or a game where you play as a Nazi and get points for gassing Jewish people. Is that okay?
Anything goes if the rule is "it's okay because you don't have to play it or watch it", but would you be okay with being able to romance children in Mass Effect? There are lots of things that you're okay with being banned; but if the idea was as simple as people could just not watch it or play it, you'd be in favour of it being allowed. There's obviously more to it.
This goes to @GamingFan4Lyf too. I don't like censorship either, and I said in my post I don't necessarily support this ban, yet we regularly accept things being banned because to our society it's obvious it should be banned.
Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Blocked in Kuwait, Activision Refunds Preorders
@NEStalgia Well imagine if you were from Kuwait and when you were a kid, a foreign army stormed into your country, your city, and you sat in your home terrified as people you potentially knew were killed. Then you're an adult and an American company makes a fun game about it (and presumably a fun game where it's Americans doing the saving as the Kuwaitis powerlessly thank their saviours). At least with WW1&2 stuff, practically no one actually playing games based on them would've been alive then. Not saying I agree with a ban but it would be a terrifying and traumatic thing for a lot of people there still, I could imagine.
Re: Heresy as Space Marine 2 Community Questions Saber's 'Bullsh*t Nerfs', Drops Review Bombs
I don't know if 500 negative reviews (even overnight) that actually pertain to the gameplay, when the game has over 78,000 reviews that average "very positive", counts as review bombing. A small number of people are expressing dissatisfaction with gameplay changes - let's not throw around buzzwords we don't understand. I've not even played this game so I'm not saying this because I'm annoyed by the changes, by the way.
Re: Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero Players Intentionally Training as Lamest, Weakest Z-Fighter
After that impressive victory, Yamcha deserves a nice lie down in his crater.
Re: One Year On, Plucky PS Portal's Sales Remain Strong
@lindos I doubt it. People with that low level of knowledge about gaming wouldn't know the Portal exists in the first place, let alone assume their child definitely wants one and they it's definitely worth spending £200 on.
No one I know IRL had heard of it until I mentioned it. Also, people with a low level of gaming knowledge are usually too scared to buy anything as a gift for a gamer as they're scared of messing up. All through my life, any birthday or Christmas, my parents just give me money instead of buying me a game or accessory.
Re: One Year On, Plucky PS Portal's Sales Remain Strong
I have my Switch set up so I can do remote play on it. It's nice playing in bed, especially for more story-based games like Ace Attorney. I really can't imagine paying £200 for the ability to do that, though.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero?
To me this is mainly a game where you try to figure out how to stop being blasted around backwards. I swear to Kami-sama, I spend most of my time being combo'd around like a volleyball. I was pretty good at the previous BT.games but now I always feel like I'm Yamcha fighting a Saibaman.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Dragon Ball: Sparking! Zero?
@guardianoftime They're two different things. It's like comparing Dynasty Warriors to DMC - not that I'm saying either game is the same as those two, just that FighterZ is a traditional fighting game and Sparking/Budokai Tenkaichi is like a DBZ sim.
@IntrepidWombat "how many times can you possibly retread the same story beats"
The story isn't really the focus, to be fair. They just always have a story mode because people expect it, and the story is already established. This isn't aimed at you, just a general observation, but it's funny how Zelda, Pokémon and Mario never get accused of this despite being original stories that could do anything and aren't being based on a pre-existing story in another medium. Like if every FF was about trying to stop Sephiroth summoning Meteor.
Re: PS5 Pro, 30th Anniversary Consoles Now Available at More Retailers
@AgentGuapo Not if the framerate is capped, which is pretty common. In fact, if the game couldn't reach 60fps on a regular PS5, it's very likely it would be capped to 30. And unlike buying a GPU, it won't make the games look better without a patch. It just seems like such a limited boost. Some games will look a bit better, or will run at 60 while also being a slightly higher res. But most things won't benefit without a patch. And it's over a third of a price of an amazing PC that would have all games looking and running way better than in a Pro, all with free online and cheaper games. And a far larger selection of games.
I want to be tempted and excited by the Pro but I just can't.
Re: Dragon Age Series Ditches Those Disgusting Spiders in The Veilguard
@Bramble Yeah, pretty sure that's it. It's simply that quite a few games have arachnophobia mode and many ones that don't have mods for it (like Skyrim, so this idea goes back at least 13 years) so it stood out that this didn't - at least to whoever asked Bioware about this. Then they simply said "can't have an arachnophobia mode without spiders" and now, typically for the internet, people are reading into it and politicising it.